Who would you consider to be the most influential musician of the past 30 years?

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.......... and please don't all say Paul McCartney

― C J, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

J Mascis.

― jel --, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stewart Copeland.

― Pete, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kelly Jones.

― Ronan, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you can't fight it CJ, it probably IS Paul McCartney.

― unknown or illegal user, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

30 years only takes us back to 1972 tho, and I don't think anything Mr McCartney has done since then has been particularly influential.

― RickyT, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

taylor dayne

― gareth, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Peter Noone, but perhaps that's before 1972 aswell.

― Ronan, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jandek.

― Colin Meeder, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"influential"?

― Dan I., Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bez.

― Justyn Dillingham, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bill Laswell

― Winkelmann, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"musician"?

― Sam, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"be"?

― Sam, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark S / Elvis P

― the pinefox, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the words "mark s" have no meaning on this thread

― Jeff W, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For me, Kevin Shields. For the world, Giorgio Moroder.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ian Watkins.

― Graham, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tone loc

― mike hanle y, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bill Clinton.

― B-Rad, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Grandmaster Flash

― JM, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whoever was the first to use a drum machine instead of a drummer.

― Aimless, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

David Bowie.

― toraneko, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kraftwerk

― brg30, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you mean who has made the most influential music since 1972, my vote is for Grandmaster Flash too, as he more than anyone invented the DJ as we now know him. However if you mean who has been the biggest influence on the music of the last 30 years, I would say James Brown, but obviously a lot of the music that he made that has been massively influential was made before 1972. Does anyone understand what I'm on about?

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, I'm with you there, Martin -- had it been forty years I think I would have said James Brown as well. And the Grandmaster Flash argument also makes perfect sense. I guess I choose Moroder for the sheer impact of transforming ideas from Kraftwerk, JB and so forth and pointing forward more fully to an explicitly electronic-but-openly-pop future. (Though of course the drumming on something like "I Feel Love" was from Keith Forsey, I believe, rather than a beatbox.)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Steffan Dennis

― Lynskey, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Prince. Or somebody from Kraftwerk.

― j.lu, Thursday, 25 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Carnie Wilson

― Matt, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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